Students should engage in kinesthetic activities to represent knowledge and talk about them. Students engage in active language learning by demonstrating their comprehension through body movements.
Body Systems 4th Grade
Heart drawn on shower curtain
Pink lungs for table cloth
Students move through "system" holding red/blue cards
Walk to the lungs
Retrace path
Flip to red for picking up oxygen
Landforms/Water bodies
Arms for mountain, lake, ocean, valley, hill, mesa, river (students chose)
Rotation vs Revolution
Spin fingers simultaneously or singly
Magnets (North/South)
Label hands to show attract/repel
Line segment/Ray (Song)
Arms out with end point
Arms out with arrow to arrow
4th Tornado Warning vs Watch
Make binoculars with hands for Watch.
Cover head for Warning.
3rd Grade Mixtures and Solutions
Students used bodies to demonstrate boys and girls can be mixtures and that mixtures can be seperated.
1st Grade Science (Force)
Hand motions for push and pull.
Hand pretends to hold ball, open hand, ball drops to show gravity.
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Body Systems 4th Grade
Heart drawn on shower curtain
Pink lungs for table cloth
Students move through "system" holding red/blue cards
Walk to the lungs
Retrace path
Flip to red for picking up oxygen
Landforms/Water bodies
Arms for mountain, lake, ocean, valley, hill, mesa, river (students chose)
Rotation vs Revolution
Spin fingers simultaneously or singly
Magnets (North/South)
Label hands to show attract/repel
Line segment/Ray (Song)
Arms out with end point
Arms out with arrow to arrow
4th Tornado Warning vs Watch
Make binoculars with hands for Watch.
Cover head for Warning.
3rd Grade Mixtures and Solutions
Students used bodies to demonstrate boys and girls can be mixtures and that mixtures can be seperated.
1st Grade Science (Force)
Hand motions for push and pull.
Hand pretends to hold ball, open hand, ball drops to show gravity.